“The state medical examiner confirmed Tuesday that a baby boy found with his homeless mother on Portland’s streets last week died in a stillborn birth and not of exposure to freezing temperatures.”

“Officers responded to a call about 6 a.m. Jan. 9 and found a woman near Southeast 91st Avenue and Powell Boulevard with a newborn, Police Chief Mike Marshman said.”

“This has been an unprecedented year for exposure deaths in Portland – three men and one woman have died since Jan 1…”

“Multnomah County doesn’t keep statistics on homeless pregnancies or babies born on the street. Eighty-eight people died on the street in 2015 Multnomah County overall, mostly from either drugs and alcohol or diseases.” [note: they added drugs/alcohol, but wont clarify percentages – they imply the worse, down play the other – it’s a known reporters/editors trick]

“The cause of a stillbirth could be tied to many things: the mother’s lack of prenatal care and lifestyle living on the streets, Gunson said. The mother, who police said suffers from mental illness, hasn’t been able to share much information about what occurred. [again, they say “Lifestyle” as if being poor, mentally ill and homeless is some sort of choice the poor woman and now dead child planned to embark upon]

[this part is common and sad, they’re going to cause doubt to distract us from finding fault with a system that habitually fails the most desperate of us] “People on the scene when the baby was first discovered described the baby as very cold but breathing, according to police reports cited by Willamette Week, which first reported the boy’s death. Two doctors at OHSU who worked on the baby disputed the stillbirth finding, the publication said.

OHSU declined comment, citing patient confidentiality, and police haven’t responded to a request for the records from The Oregonian/OregonLive for their reports.”

— according to this article, they aren’t pressing charges against this poor mother, but we’ve read other articles that said the opposite. This article and news source was given to us by homeless advocates and street people in the area. We’re still attempting to speak with someone that knew this woman personally. We Will Keep You updated, if you’re interested. ~ gnat

This concentration of wealth and income means that while a small fraction of households are flourishing, too many Americans of all backgrounds lack basics: stable and affordable housing, access to good jobs, proximity to public transportation, and affordable health insurance and child care. Too many don’t live near good schools or have access to an affordable college education.For every American who’s living paycheck to paycheck these are significant obstacles.

Hello Kind Friends of this page and our visitors, it’s been a very long time since i (gnat, the little bug that thinks he knows a few things about #homelessness – he also started this project) have spoken about myself, our admins or homeless people, so i’m going to do a little of that before sharing an article that i’ve just read that concerns the economy, and more specifically, taxes and rich folks.

Yes, a “Homeless Bum” just read a professional article that deals with social issues, finances, and those not so generous people that are on the opposite end of the financial spectrum. Yepper, just used terms like “financial spectrum”, in a reasonably well structured sentence, that included only one (1) so-called misspelled words. My point?

Well that’s easy enough – most of us walk around thinking things about other people groups that we’re not familiar with, because of things that we’ve been told. Yup, someone SAID this about homeless people, and WE believe what’s been said as truth. Please don’t take this personally against You, Yourself… although we should, BUT it would be hypocritical of me to do so, because… I used to think a lot of $h*t about ‘the homeless’ too, and then i became a part of that group.

Decades later and I’m still asking, “How Could THIS Ever Happen To Me!!!???” — short answer — I’m not special, or un-special, nor unlucky or or or or freaking OR, This or That! WE The #Homeless are as diverse as OUR Culture, our society, Your family and friends and your neighborhood – ‘we’ are ‘us’!

Oh there was a time that I said things that I had heard others say, “There, but for the grace of God, go I.”, and meant it in a kind way too. Then I walked some miles in these shoes and now believe ‘here for the lack of grace and caring from other humans, go i.’

In closing, we the homeless are in need of your help. Don’t allow others to dictate how You will help one of us. Yup, one of us. That’s all that I’m asking. You see, by speaking on these pages, A Precious few people stepped up to help just me and mine. It is those actions that keep me hopeful enough to continue to struggle for life, not to sit and slowly die in despair and rejection.

The people that operate Occupy Homeless believe that by supporting each other and working as community, we can bring about positive change for all. It is in the giving of time and lifting people up that we make a difference. We are glad that You wish to assist us in these efforts.

Hello Folks, we’ve changed a few things with our website and services – that means that the old site and all of the work there is gone and this page is going to be a small mess for a while.

Luckily, we do have some backups of stories and images here and on our Facebook page and we’ll get those things back in place soon!

To those of you that wish to contribute to this cause (by us a sandwich, coffee… help offset the costs of this site!, we’ll have those donation button up again soon. But if you just can’t wait to donate, send this page or our facebook page a message and we’ll supply our Paypal and/or other information as needed!

Again, Thanks a Very Lot for all of the encouraging words, likes, shares, well wishes, prayers and everything else! <3’s

Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing! – We’re just going to also say Hello World, and leave it at that… welcome to the Official Occupy Homeless website… comment, message us, find us on www.facebook.com/OccupyHomeless Twitter @Occupy_Homeless

– volunteer to help with stories, images, memes, and a thousand other things, including prayers, kind words, well wishes, encouragement –

– yes, the whole crew is either currently homeless or has spent 5 or more years on the streets of the USA, and are barely hanging on to housing – these pages cost us money that we honestly should be spending in other ways, but the four of us see this as our duty to help these other folks that also live down here in the gutters and back alleyways… — so, when you can, stop to talk with that man/woman on the corner, tell them we said hello, and say a few kind things yourself… that’s really enough on some days… ~ gnat@OccupyHomeless.com (it costs me about $20 per month to have this page and that address – i’m doing this for you) <3’s